we're going to have a lot more for you throughout the evening. obviously, our breaking news is going to continue throughout the night as we get our arms around this disaster and just how bad it is. more images expected to come in in the next few hours given the communication challenges we've been having. larry king live going to continue our coverage starting right now. conan o'brien tells nbc, jump in the lake. the network's late night line-up has already crashed. is it about to burn big time? plus, exclusive consecu. he steered mark mcguire to steroids. he says he's got the rest of the story. then a third white house party crasher tells us how he

got into that state house dinner. he tells us he was invited. you be the judge. the man who dug up the dirt on hear reid and sarah palin from the bombshells of her sizzling new book. next on "larry king live." good evening, a little bit of breaking news of our own. about 35 minutes before air time, we received word from jose consecu, the former baseball star, saying, quote, i am having a breakdown. i cannot emotionally do it, meaning this program. i am emotionally drained. i am tired of defending myself. i heard jose earlier today on the radio and he was well defended by both the host and the callers, all of whom were praising him. anyway, we're sorry to hear that, jose, and if you want to get a raincheck, you're welcome here tomorrow night as well. let's move right to the breaking news at hand and that's the earthquake from port-au-prince.

in haiti, a major earthquake there just three hours ago. it measured 7.0, the largest ever recorded in that area. the epicenter ten miles west of port-au-prince. the haitian ambassador says he believes the number of victims will be very high. this is being called a catastrophe of major proportions. let's go to michael holmes, cnn international anchor and correspondent, the miami herald's jackie charles is also with us. she's the paper's caribbean correspondent. she'll be on her way to haiti, by the way, first thing tomorrow morning. michael, earthquakes in the tropics. have you ever heard of this? >> amazing, isn't it? you know, there is a lot of earthquakes around the world every year, but they rarely get into this sort of level, this 7.0 level. and also the damage that's done in a place like haiti. because, you know, the buildings aren't built the way we would expect. the foundations aren't great. there is a lot of concrete buildings there but not well built. there is a lot of shanty towns

there. larry, i just got this here. this is really the engine room of our coverage where people are assigning crews, getting them out in the field, getting them down to haiti and getting the nfgts in. seconds ago, i just got this from one of our people here, a u.n. official telling her the u.n. headquarters in haiti has collapsed, the building has collapsed. they have not been able to reach any of their senior officials. this confirmed from a u.n. official in haiti. there are engineers on-site at the moment checking out the damage, what remains of the building. and in fact, brazilian and filipino troops that are in haiti are protecting the site because guess what, there are already reports, larry, of looting. i've got to tell you one of the first sources we've had to get information out of haiti, because of course the communications have been terrible, believe it or not, i'm talking about social networking sites. i'm going to push in here who has been following one of these sites. the gentleman she's made contact with him has actually skyped as

well, so more technology. he's posted these pictures on his facebook sites. even when phones aren't working, social media sites are working. talia over here has twitpicks as well. you have one here of a wounded person. a lot of these things coming in, larry, so a lot of new information coming through social media again. >> larry: amazing. michael holmes, he'll be on the scene, and by the way, i would gather, based on prior knowledge, that cnn international will be on top of this scene throughout the morning hours. jackie charles, the miami herald's correspondent, is on the phone. are you surprised to see this in a place like haiti, jackie? >> i would like to say i'm surprised, but year before last when i was covering the school collapse that came before the back-to-back hurricanes, everybody talked about the possibility of an earthquake

because they know haiti opposites on the fault line that runs through the dominican republic through haiti. so even though people spoke about this, it was still not something you expected. but again, this is a nation that in the last couple years has had major chal lenglenges includinge four back-to-back storms. >> larry: you know haiti as well as anyone. the death toll is going to be incredible, isn't it in. >> yes. right now we haven't confirmed any deaths or casualties on the ground. we have reporters who left tonight to try to get to haiti across the border, but i'm being told two major communities, slums that are in the mountains, that they've collapsed. i've heard reports from people about hearing the mountains crumble. it won't be until daybreak that we really start to get an assessment of the damage and even then it will be a couple days to get a real assessment of what's taken place. >> larry: you're going to try to go there tomorrow?

>> yes, i am going tomorrow to haiti. american airlines has canceled some flights, we're told, but there's other ways to get there, so we've already got some reporters enroute and i'm going to try to get there as well. >> larry: since they were adjoining, why do you think the dominican republic was not hit? >> it's interesting, because i heard reports they felt it all the way to jamaica. but one of the things about port-au-prince is it's a densely populated city, there have been issues of concern about the construction. but interestingly enough, we're hearing about the presidential palace, which is a very well constructed building has been damaged. the president, fortunately, was not in but other people were in and they are reportedly injured, so they're trying to get some assistance there. and this has happened in petionville, which is a suburb of very wealthy, very well-built homes. so i don't necessarily think it's because of poor construction or this is just

mother nature. >> larry: jackie charles, good luck getting there. next is patrice pierre. she spoke to family in haiti. have you reached anyone? >> yes, i have. most are okay, but the whole house is collapsed in. they didn't report anybody die yet, but so far some of the people not okay. >> you keep in close contact with us. let's check with meteorologist chad myers. chad, how did this happen quickly? >> i'll go through one question at a time, wolf -- or larry, that your other answers couldn't get to. a big fault through the caribbean, all the way up the west coast. that fault line slipped.

it didn't slip in the d.r. that's why there was no rupture there or no earthquake there, it was in port-au-prince. i'm going to play this, as you play it, you'll notice there is a big line right there. see that trench, that dark line through there? that dark line is part of the fault line. the fault line slipped near port-au-prince and we had a 7.0 earthquake. the problem, larry, is it was only six miles deep. you can have an earthquake 200 miles deep, the earth kind of pads it before it gets to the surface. you get six miles deep, there is no padding. there is a lot of shaking going on, and that's what happened here. the entire earth shook at a 7.0, and we're getting ireports now. i want you to go to ireport.com. we don't know that all of these are right, but we think so. we're looking at these earthquake pictures, and there will be more. look at this building, just completely shattered. >> are you saying an earth caqu

could happen anywhere? >> absolutely. even in the middle of the plates in madrid, we're talking the st. louis area, an earthquake could happen there. also intermediate of the fault, you could also get a rupture. sometimes the ones in the middle of the plates where we don't expect them can be the worst. >> larry: incredible. chad myers. well, nbc's late night drama is next. is conan o'brien staging a mutiny? stick around. maybe one of the most important is centrum silver ultra men's. a complete multivitamin for men over 50. it has nutrients to help support eye health and nutrients like vitamin d for your colon. centrum silver ultra men's

>> larry: here's what conan o'brien said.

on the phone, donald trump, the star of an nbc show himself, star of "the apprentice" and. donald, it's your network. what is your read on this? >> the decision is incorrect. jay leno was doing very nicely. david letterman is doing fine. they're all my friends over there. they'll put jay back where he belongs, conan will probably leave and go to another network and maybe everybody is going to be happy. >> will jay go back to 11:30 for the tonight show? >> that's what should happen. jay should go back, he was doing very well. conan's ratings are substantially lower.

i don't know if that's his fault or if it's because he is proceeded by jay. it's going to work out. it is a catastrophic decision but they're making a comeback. >> larry: you're a veteran of these wars. what do you make of this? >> larry, as a veteran broadcaster, is this not perhaps the jackass move of all time in broadcasting, second perhaps only to arthur godfrey's firing of julia ormond on the air? take a salad, put a fork in it and stir it up, things were going rather nicely. i love the way politicians and network people will always say in a disaster, this is exactly the way we hoped it would work out. >> you thought the shows would achieve lower ratings, angry hosts and affiliates wanting to

dump out all over the place? is that what you are happy with? i promise you that the man or men responsible for this, because you and i and donald trump know how these things work, will very soon be promoted and given a pay raise. >> larry: do you think conan will go to fox, dick? >> probably. they don't understand performers. i guess there's no way they would, they come from different worlds. but what do you think the hosts feel? they don't understand the sensibilities. you take conan and say, you're not good enough, conan, to start the show so you need a wamrm-up man. maybe we can get a warm-up man. how about jay leno? we'll give him a third of what he had and put him in there, and i'm sure he'll be happy. let's just publicly piss everyone off. >> larry: bill connor of the new york times, he wrote one of the

great books written about this years ago called "late shift." he broke this story as well. what do you make of this, bill? what happens now? >> well, i think that's a big question. i think there's going to be a massive negotiation. i mean, pointedly, conan didn't resign here today, he just basically said he wasn't going to accept this assignment, and i believe they're in the middle of a very big mess now and how are they going to get it resolved. i do think from the perspective of nbc getting jay back to 11:30 might be what they most want right now because they still feel like he can be very competitive at 11:30 and conan was losing to letterman, so i guess that's what they feel they've accomplished more than anything, but mostly what they've accomplished is a gigantic train wreck. >> conan sounded like he's leaving, though, didn't he, bill? >> he basically said he wouldn't do what they're telling him to do, but he's showing up for work. he did a show tonight, and he'll

continue to do shows, because if he were to not do shows, then they'll say he quit and they wouldn't have to pay him off in this whatever massive amount of money they still owe him. so i think that's very much being misinterpreted. he's not quitting, he's just telling him they won't do what they're asking him to do after the olympics. >> larry: yay a >> larry: jay and conan have been making jokes about this debacle, let's take a look. oh, we didn't have it. >> they just put a banner up, nbc, "mission accomplished." >> larry: donald, aren't you surprised? you know all these executives. how did they get in this mess? >> dfs just a big mistake. i think it was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of television, as bill carter said, and it looks to me like a massive litigation waiting to

happen. at the same time, ic think now nbc has claimed not to pay conan because they're going to say conan has refused to go on the air, that way we don't have to pay him the 40 or $8 o$80 milli whatever the package is, and now they're probably going to say we're not going to pay conan and we have jay leno back where he belongs. it's a mess. i've never seen anything like this. >> larry: hold it, dick. whoever ends up on the 11:35 will koccompete with letterman here's what he said on the show tonight. >> now nbc is really up against a hard place trying to bring shows up against it. look what they've come up with so far. >> in the television industry, there are two types of talk show hosts, jay leno and those who have been victimized by jay leno.

>> larry: the true beneficiary, dick, is david letterman, right? >> yes, david letterman, and, of course, craig ferguson and jimmy kimmel and all the people who are having a nice laugh over what's happening to their colleagues. i wonder if donald in his media would say if the economy were different and if nbc's economy were different they could have afforded to maybe let things go a little longer, not that i think that would have helped. in the old days they could afford to let a thing go a year and then say it's no good. >> larry: donald, do you think so? >> i don't think so, dick. i think the ratings were extremely bad on the tonight show. jay leno was actually doing the ratings they anticipated, about 5 million people. that's what they thought he

would get, but nbc could never be number one, because when you have 5 million people at the 10:00 hour, you can never be number one. >> larry: give me the forecast, dick. how will it end up? >> with conan making a deal within the next week to ten days to leave. i think then they'll move jay back into the tonight show, they'll call it the tonight show, they'll have an hour-long show. jimmy fallon will retain his show, and i think conan will attempt as best he can to get an offer. i think the fox deal is a possibility, but it's very complicated by the same thing which complicated the leno situation which is reaction of affiliates. they have shows at 11:30 and 11:00 they might not want to give up because they spent a lot of money on it. he's a big talent. i think he should land somewhere. >> as we say in the business, stay tuned. we'll be right back. you know why i sell tools?

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why haiti? >> because there is a fault that lies right through the dominican republic and right through haiti. this is called a slip fault just like what we would know as the world series earthquake. there is a fault that runs right through the country. in fact, all the way even into the british virgin islands. there were earthquakes all the time in puerto rico, just not that common in haiti. so the fault was going this way on one side, the fault going on this way on the other side. that's different than what was, let's say, the banda aceh quake, which was basically a fault that moved up. we had a seduction going to banda aceh and another piece of dirt or earth going across that way. when it broke, which was right here, the earth moved up, literally feet into the air. that pushed water out of the way and that pushing of the water created the big tsunami. there was a stsunami watch with

this but there was never really a big tsunami threat with this earthquake. it was all shaking. a 7.0 earthquake only six miles deep was a violent shake for the people there, and the fact that we don't have much information is not a good sign. no news is bad news at this point. that means nobody could actually get information out of there to tell us, larry. >> larry: hang with us. you'll be with us throughout the hours, chad. michael holmes is our cnn international anchor and correspondent. this would not be a surprise in california, it would not be a surprise in san francisco. major surprise in haiti. how much of an effect do you think, michael, it's had by the fact it's such a surprise? >> any earthquake is going to be a surprise, i guess, larry, and the problem is in a place like haiti, the buildings, they're not sound like they are here in the united states, for example, obviously. a lot of buildings are made of concrete, foundations not good. there are a lot of shanty towns there. so an earthquake, particularly one of 7.0, a serious

earthquake, strikes so close to the city, 12 miles. it's going to do damage. i tell you, what's happened since we last spoke? danielle delintz is here. she's patient. we brought you in. you've been listening in on some of the feeds that have been coming. what sorts of things have you been hearing? >> lots of destruction, churches have collapsed. there is a local marketplace that has collapsed, and they've reported a lot of casualties. there is a suburb called petionville where a lot of houses, luxury homes, have collapsed. and they're reporting a lot of deaths. >> a lot of deaths, yeah. that's the sort of thing we've been hearing. danielle has been listening in to the local language feeds that have been coming in here, actually, via the internet. the internet playing an important role getting information to you, larry. we've still got the facebook pictures up here. we've actually been in contact with the fellow who has this facebook page. we talked to him on skype, in

fact. this is one of the first lots of images that we got posted on facebook when the phones weren't working, when a lot of infrastructure had gone down. social media kicked in again. talia is keeping an eye on twitpics, a lot going on on twitter. people are calling in wanting to know how to help. now, i got to say, one of the best web sites for that is one of ours, cnn.com/impact. it's your world web site, all kinds of information about gruc groups that are there, groups that are going there, ways you can help. people are really asking for that, larry. >> larry: 2 million people live in port-au-prince. it should hold 50,000 but 2 million live there. how catastrophic is this going to get, do you think? >> this is a country that was in dire straits, anyway, economically crushed.

it's been so bad there for so long there were already aid groups in place there. i was talking to somebody from world vision earlier in haiti, in port-au-prince who went through this earlier. we have some our own people here who are haitian who have been in contact with their relatives. this is going to be enormously damaging, not just to the infrastructure, but it crushes people. deforestation has been a huge deal in haiti for many years. i don't know if you remember, last year it rained and rained and rained. there are a lot of mudslides because the forests are all gone. this is a country that is about as pained as can be to begin with, let alone this sort of thing coming down on their heads. a lot of aid groups immobilizing, the u.s. military going to immobilize. these people need the help. >> larry: stay with us. we'll have more on this incredible occurrence in the caribbean.

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>> larry: we're back. luke renner is with us on the phone. he's outside cape haitian, haiti, a humanitarian worker with his family in haiti.

what can you tell us, luke? >> i'm happy to report in in the north of haiti. we're about 90 miles due north as the crow flies in port-au-prince. while we d in fact, feel the earthquake and it was substantial. i was telling people earlier that our house felt like it was sitting on top of a beach ball. everything in the world was moving. your previous guest told us that haiti is largely deforested. up here there are quite a few trees. while we felt it, i'm happy to report that in the north outside of port-au-prince, things seem to be fairly calm, damage is low to none at this point. >> larry: is that the second largest city? >> i'm sorry; can you repeat that? >> larry: is cape haitian the second largest city in haiti? >> that's correct, larry. sorry for the connection. surprisingly, our connect activity through the internet has been the saving grace.

the entire network in haiti has been crippling right now. i don't know if it's overloaded or actually shut down. in the north we felt the aftershocks so far, but everybody seems to be fairly calm, and damage, prior to the sun going down, seemed to be minimal, if not non existent. >> larry: let's go to the white house. our white house correspondent is with us. dan, what's the white house doing about all of this? >> they continue to monitor the situation, larry. the president earlier tonight put out a statement saying my thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been affected by this earthquake. we are closely monitoring the situation and we stand ready to assist the people of haiti. the president found out about this earthquake shortly before 6:00 p.m. tonight, larry, and at that point you have to make sure the embassy personnel in haiti were safe, to begin preparations in the event they were needed for humanitarian assistance, and our u.n. southern command began

to coordinate an assessment and any assistance. secretary hillary clinton said the u.s. is offering full assistance to haiti, that the u.s. will provide full military disaster relief, so haiti, a country that's been hit hard in the past by political unrest, other natural disasters, again, reelg aft reeling after this earthquake and the u.s. ready to help out. >> larry: dan, would you expect to see troops going in? >> it's hard to say. there are no u.s. troops currently on the ground in haiti. we'll have to see what develops. right now the u.s. just promising any kind of military assistance if possible. troops could land on the ground, but none at this point that we know of. >> larry: what have we heard from our embassy? >> that's a good question. it's unclear whether the u.s. and the white house was able to communicate directly with the embassy to make sure everyone was okay. the only word we got was the

president did attempt to reach out to them to make sure they're okay. there were reports that came back saying there is a lot of structural damage, some government buildings have been impacted as well. we don't know what the situation is for the u.s. structure there, but certainly that's something the white house is looking into and we should be finding that out in the coming hours. >> larry: now, with something like this down in washington, are the white house aides up all night, state department, everyone up? >> that's an interesting question. not everyone is at the white house, clearly some of the people have gone home, but there are some people around closely monitoring the situation. as you know, in this high-tech time, everyone can access information through the phone or blackberry or other device they might have. so the various different point folks are in touch with the necessary people and monitoring the situation. to what extent have they gathered in the situation room or anything like that, we have not been able to get that information, but we've been told the white house is on top of this, and again, ready to

provide any kind of assistance necessary to haiti. >> that's dan lothian in the white house. we have some comments our producers have found on haiti. one writes, the phones are mostly down, but sometimes you get lucky and get through. someone else says, we need a state of emergency for haiti. please contact congress. we needed a asacp. another one writes, the singing and praying have become intense. and you have to believe from what i'm hearing, this is worse than anyone is imagining. >>steve: >> brus steve brusk tweets, we'll reassess future flights after daylight wednesday. and that's it, we'll check with more and come back after this. ♪ tricked-out exotic cars ♪ it's just how i thought it'd be ♪ ♪ 'cept the party's not for me ♪ ♪ 'cause some punk opened a credit card with my id ♪

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their loved ones. >> larry: we'll check with the representative unicef in a moment. let's go back to patrice pierre. she's on the phone with us. she has family in haiti. she spoke to some relatives earlier. any further contact, patrice? >> caller: yes, larry. i have spoken to my uncle in haiti and things are really bad right now, from what i hear. >> larry: better. in what way? >> well, a lot of houses are falling apart, especially the two-story houses. they are falling apart. our home has fallen apart and there's a big hotel in petionville called hotel montana has collapsed to the ground. >> larry: you didn't mean better? >> no. no. >> larry: i misunderstood you. >> yes. >> larry: what are your own emotions right now? you live in haiti, right? >> yes, i do. >> larry: are you going to try to go back?

>> yes, i'm going to try to go back in the weekend coming up if i'm allowed to. >> larry: have you lost any family members? >> we don't know yet. me husband tried to contact haiti. it's really hard to get through right now. everybody is trying to call their family, so it's going to be hard for me to get through. >> larry: where are you physically, patrice? where are you located? >> i'm in florida. i'm in lakeland, florida right now. >> larry: let's go to ta'mar hahn. she is a representative of unicef. where are you located? >> i'm in panama city, panama. >> larry: that's about how far from haiti? >> yes, and we'll get -->> larry: how far from haiti? >> two hours by plane. >> larry: can unicef do anything at this early hour? >> at this early hour, no, because we're still trying to

gather all the information that we need. it's dark in haiti. we have suffered substantial damage to our own building, as have many other u.n. agencies, so right now people are just trying to gather information. however, we are on the ground, we have been on the ground in haiti since 1949 and we have pr prepositioned and we're prepared for the hurricane season which happens every year. 2008 was a devastating hurricane svn for haiti, but this comes as a big surprise for everybody, and this situation of women ask children in haiti was already one of great vulnerability before the hurricane hit the island. this is one of the poorest countries on earth. far too many haitian children and women are engaged in a struggle for rights like basic

necessities like water. haiti has the highest population density in the western hemisphere with four out of ten children living in homes with mud floors or in severely overcrowded conditions and with more than five people living in each room. >> and that's unicef's number one concern in the world is children. >> absolutely. >> larry: what do you immediately do when you can get in there? >> this first line of action is water and sanitation. because that will prevent the spread of disease. at the same time, you know, we try to tackle it from all different angles. nutrition, obviously, shelter and education. we provide something called schooling to enable children to go to some kind of healthy environment as soon as possible after a disaster. those are our first lines of action. >> larry: ta'mar, we'll be calling on you again.

don't go away. he's been to haiti 12 times. his office is getting constant updates and he joins us now from our washington bureau. congressman, what can you tell us? what's the latest from your perspective? >> larry, there is a lot going on on the ground now in haiti. unfortunately, we have reports coming in from individuals. my district office received a number of calls. i've been in contact with the white house, also with southern command, which is the military arm that covers haiti. it's had to respond at the recent hurricane. you have to understand that there are people that are trapped right now, there is a search and rescue effort to the best of the u.n. that's on the ground now, they're trying to help, as well as family members. but rescue must come as soon as possible to haiti. their structures are not as solid as structures in the u.s., and i know the crumbling and dust we've seen we'll continue to see because the buildings are

so fragile. >> larry: what area do you represent in florida? >> i represent miami dade county and broward county. but there are haitian americans in new york, boston, l.a., central florida, a number of places. so all of them are very, very concerned. i know the state department has received quite a few calls. the haitian government is definitely in need once again because of the lack of resources that are there already, but i think it's very, very important for folks to understand, there are a lot of americans also in haiti that are carrying out humanitarian work. i know the southern baptists have many missions that are there, building and feeding children that are there, so this is a real issue that has a serious connection to the united states of america. >> larry: the congressman is going to stay with us. the state department operations center has set up the following number for americans receiving information about family members in haiti. the number is 1-888-407-4747.

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>> larry: anderson cooper just informed me that later tonight, early in the morning he'll be heading to the dominican republic and then motoring into haiti. that's his job, that's what he does. anderson, take it. >> larry, our breaking news coverage of the earthquake in haiti continues in the next few hours. we'll be sharing photos like these, the damage of the 7.0 quake still being assessed. what we do know is when daylight arrives, we expect to see widespread destruction and loss of life. they say to expect serious loss of life. we've been talking to a number of survivors. the country is incredibly impoverished, the infrastructure already compromised before the quake struck. we'll see you there live tomorrow. larry? >> larry: how do you know where to go when you get there? >> i've worked a lot in haiti over the years all throughout the '90s. the first battle is just trying to get in. the airport is shut down right now in port-au-prince.

i'm hoping to drive across the border from dominican republic, but frankly, i don't even know if the border will be open. you grab what you can and you do the best you can. i hope to be able to get to port-au-prince. it is a long drive from the border to port-au-prince. a lot of mountain roads. fear of mudslides. it is going to be tilt. you have no doubt. >> if anybody can get there, anderson will. thanks. he'll be reporting for us tomorrow night from no doubt, port-au-prince. let's go to michael holmes in atlanta. he has a skype interview with someone in haiti. is that right? >> that's right, larry. a lot going on at the international desk. right here on the screen, this is very low tech. i have to show you. he is there in haiti. now, first of all, just tell me what happened. what was your experience of this earthquake? what happened around you? >> i was, i'm going to say hi to

everybody. i was driving. driving back to my work. i was talking in traffic. i was on the phone. when i feel like my car was shaking. i thought that some other cars hit me. and when i look in front of me, i see a lot of people falling down and they were crying, crying, crying for help. and after that, my phone, i lost the communication. and after that, i went out of the car and i realized that it was an earthquake. >> so your photographs on your facebook page were among the first pictures we saw out of haiti. what sort of level of damage have you seen and what are your friends telling but? how bad this is, how extensive this is.

>> to tell you the truth, those pictures that i took with my phone has nothing to do compared to the real damage that i saw after all. because there is a lot, really a lot of -- you have to know the country to see really what happened. there is a lot of big buildings were collapsed and there is a lot of really, really, really big house near my job that will collapse, too. the big thing is there is a lot of people in those buildings, still living, still breathing but no people, no response to help to get out where they are. >> and how well equipped is haiti to deal with something like this? i know the answer. it's not very well equipped at all. >> yeah. it's not very well equipped at all. i have to tell your story.

in 2008, we had a school that collapsed. only school. one school. and we are not able to give the quicker and real response to this disaster. now, it's not one school. it is like every block you find a building that collapsed. >> what about the toll? what have you seen? what have you heard as far as people? >> i heard a lot of people are praying. that's the first thing saying that jesus is coming. saying that we are, we need to pray. we need to save our lives by believing in god in something. that's the most thing that i heard. and i heard that people are saying that we are a poor

country. we don't need those kinds of situations because we can't deal with them. >> yeah. the people crying for help. because the thing is that when you don't have a car, when you're stuck in traffic, when there is no word to warn or nobody to help you and you're bleeding, you can say anything. really a lot. >> a very, very bad situation. stay with us. i want to keep talking to you after we get off here. but larry, there you go. somebody right there at the front line of this, giving you a sense of what it was like to be there. >> thank you, michael. outstanding work. we're monitoring twitter feeds tonight. here is more of what people are saying from haiti. from fireside inn. falling buildings are the major threat in an earthquake. to those with family outside, please don't panic. the countryside is calm. another is that people in large numbers are singing prayers

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>> larry: let's check in with our foreign affairs correspondent. what's the picture regarding aid? >> we just got the latest coming out. state department. information to agency. they are sending what is called a dart team. that's disaster assistance response team. they've activated two partners. one come from fairfax county here in virginia. a search and rescue. and then also from los angeles, search and rescue. and they say that they have 72 personnel, six search and rescue canines and up to 48 tons of rescue equipment. they also have u.s. aid disaster experts who will help to assess the situation on the ground. one of the real complications as we've been reporting, larry, is communications. they believe that they'll be able to get this team in. that's the really, really important thing that they have to do.

and we also have that number that the state department operations center gave out recently. maybe we can put that graphic up again which is the number for americans who are searching for information about the family members. that number. 1-888-407-4747. what they're doing, they also have what's called the warden network. that is a way of getting in touch with peel who work at the embassy and also, u.s. citizens who are in haiti. they have that activated but it is very, very difficult to have any type of communication within haiti. so anyone who is within haiti trying to get in touch with the embassy could be in for a lot of trouble. that is the number for people here to call to try to get information on their family members, larry. >> larry: thanks, jill. our foreign affairs correspondent at the state department. quite an hour. quite a today. cnn, of course, i